Receipt for a new water-wheel axle issued to the Apion estate TM 22082OxyrhynchusA.D. 587

[recto] † In the reign of our most divine and most pious master, greatest benefactor, Flavius Tiberius Mauricius, the eternal Augustus and Imperator, year 6, and in the consulship of the same our most pious master year 5, Tybi 2, sixth indiction. To the most magnificent heirs of Apion of glorious memory, former first patrician, landowners also here in the splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, through Menas, servant, who makes the stipulation and acquires for his own masters, the same most renowned persons, the right of action and obligation, Aurelius Phoibammon son of Papnouthios, his mother being Maura, originating from the hamlet of Neon of the Oxyrhynchite nome, belonging to your magnificence, its registered farmer, greetings. Since there was now again need of one axle for the estate water-wheel under my charge called 'Of the Fields', which irrigates those same fields, I went up to the city and asked your magnificence to order that the axle be provided to me; and at once your magnificence, taking care for the maintenance of its affairs, had it bought by me in the country and credited its price to me in the accounts. I have received a new axle, suitable for irrigating and satisfactory, for the completion of all the machine's parts, on this present day, which is Tybi 2 of the present sixth indiction, for the water supply for the crops of the seventh indiction, with God's help; the same axle is to serve the irrigation for a period of five years, and the old one has been given to the doorkeeper. And as proof of receipt I have made this written acknowledgement, which is valid, written in a single copy, and in answer to the formal question I have agreed. † I, Aurelius Phoibammon son of Papnouthios: this acknowledgement is satisfactory to me as set out above. I, Papnouthios, wrote on his behalf since he is illiterate. † † Total: one axle only. ††† ☧ Completed through me, Papnouthios. [verso] † Acknowledgement of Phoibammon son of Papnouthios from the hamlet of Neon, of receipt of one axle.